I'll be there tomorrow, someone I work with wants some fish. There are 100's of great baits and everyone will swear by something. Canned corn. salmon eggs, worms, crickets, Berkley Strike are my favorites when I visit the dark side

. If your chunking hardware, panther martins, joes flies, rapalas all work. As for places to fish, I start in Bunches creek early in the a.m. and work my way toward town. Being the week before the 4th, they should have plenty of fish stocked for the masses. Just beware of the C&R section, there are plenty of signs marking it. Don't forget the bigger water below Cherokee as you head to Bryson City, I always hit that on my way out of town.